• We will implement new traceability systems to provide high levels of clarity on where and how our products are produced.
• We will focus our efforts on the following supply chains: Coffee, Nuts, Tropical fruit, Fish & Seafood, Cotton and Palm oil.

• We will work with our business partners to increase the transparency of our supply chains so that we have a better understanding concerning the origin of every product we sell and the raw materials we use for our products.
• In order to offer greater transparency to our stakeholders, we will publish information, such as the names and addresses of relevant suppliers and tiers, for six high-priority supply chains (where applicable).

Progress so far:

• We are already publishing the addresses and number of employees of all our main production facilities used for the manufacturing of garment textiles and shoes.
• In 2021, we published the names and addresses of our direct business partners (tier 1 suppliers) for bananas & pineapples, coffee and fish & seafood. 

• We will use human rights impact assessments to identify key potential impacts on human rights and their root causes.
• By the end of 2021, we carried out human rights impact assessments for three high-priority raw materials - Brazil nuts, coffee and avocado to identify, understand and assess the potential and actual adverse effects of our business activities on workers and other affected rights-holders such as community members, smallholder farmers and women.
• The results of the assessments will support us to implement further measures mitigating negative impacts and enhancing positive impacts of our business activities on human rights.

• As a global retailer, we will use our voice and influence to increase public awareness of human rights issues.  
• We will communicate our success, but also the challenges we face in living up to our commitment of respecting human rights and improving living and working conditions throughout our supply chains.
• We will call for open dialogue about a mandatory human right due diligence legislation and commit to support the development of future legislation. More information: International Position Statement on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence

• We will establish capacity-building activities across our high-priority supply chains. These activities will address human rights and/or environmental risks where a systematic, industry-wide solution is missing.
• More information: Current capacity building activities

• For selected high-priority supply chains, we will align our CR requirements with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) Due Diligence framework.
• We will support and empower our suppliers to fulfil our CR requirements.

• For workers in all high-priority supply chains, we will establish or participate in effective operational-level grievance mechanisms for individuals and communities who may be adversely impacted (based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP)

• Building upon the establishment of grievance mechanisms, we aim to provide workers with access to remedy (based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP)

• We will analyse our current purchasing practices and develop a pilot for more sustainable purchasing practices.
• Based on the pilot, we will implement responsible purchasing practices across selected high-priority supply chains.

• The results of our Corporate Responsibility Supplier Evaluation (CRSE) will influence our buying decisions and provide guidance to our business partners for improving their social and environmental supply chain performance. The CRSE will also support long-term relationships with those business partners who demonstrate a strong sustainability record.
• Our aim is that all business partners in high-priority supply chains are integrated into the CRSE and undergo a regular review to evaluate their compliance with our CR requirements. This will eventually improve our business partner’s CR knowledge and monitoring skills regarding their CR performance and go beyond normal compliance processes.
• We will continue to support and empower our business partners to improve their CR performance along the supply chain.  

• We will establish long-term relationships with strategic business partners who perform well in regards to CR.
• We will consider our suppliers’ CR performance during buying decisions. In our high-priority supply chains, our aim is to source more than 80% from those business partners who achieved the highest scores in our Corporate Responsibility Supplier Evaluation (CRSE).

• For the delivery of sustainable packaging, we will prioritise the removal of any unnecessary packaging and reduce the remaining packaging weight.
• We will work closely with our business partners to reduce our own brand packaging weight by 15% (baseline year: 2020).

• Our aspiration is for all our product packaging to be designed in the most sustainable way possible.
• We will ensure that 100% of the material used for our own brand packaging is at a minimum recyclable, can be reused, or composted.

• All of our stores, distribution centres and corporate offices will prevent food waste going to landfill or incineration and maximise the share of other operational waste to be reused or recycled.
• 90% of food and operational waste will be diverted from landfill or incineration.

• We strive to bring sustainable and responsibly sourced products onto everybody's plate. To achieve this, we use systems with proven reliability and suitability for market-wide implementation.
• The use of independent certification schemes when buying our products is one example. By using these certifications, we can work towards ensuring that our products are sourced in an environmentally friendly and social manner.
• Our goal is to make sustainable products the norm and to increase the number of sustainable products available to our customers by an additional 10% (against baseline year 2019).

Progress so far:

• We always considered certifications to be a sign of quality and responsible business practices. We are looking to increase the number of sustainable products in our range and already provide our customers with, amongst others, Fairtrade bananas, Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade chocolate, MSC and ASC certified fish and seafood products, or a range of organic products (more information: ALDI SOUTH Group's Corporate Responsibility Performance or visit our national websites). 

• Good water stewardship is a priority in our supply chains. Fresh produce is a high-priority regarding water risks and we have identified water critical regions of origin. We will work together with our producers to implement standards, which include criteria on good water management practices.
• This will ensure that our producers have the support they need to implement the practical steps needed for an efficient water management at farms.

• Our goal is to source 100% of our seafood products from responsibly managed fisheries and farms. This will include sourcing from certified or low risk fisheries and farms and supporting improvement projects.
• To achieve this, we will work closely with partners like the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, the Seafood Taskforce and the Global Tuna Alliance to address sustainability challenges at governmental, fishery and individual supply chain level.
• As a partner to the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability we will also require our business partners to provide information on the entire value chain of their seafood products, e.g. on catchment area and fishing methods, as well as other information to support responsible sourcing and continuous improvement.

• We examined the deforestation risks within our global supply chains in order to understand where we have the most impact and we strive to eliminate deforestation from our high-priority supply chains by 2030.
• At the beginning of 2022, we will publish an International Position Statement comprising the results of our deforestation risk assessment and setting out how we aim to achieve our goal.
• More information: Major fields of action in order to tackle deforestation in our high priority supply chains

• We strive to eliminate the use of hazardous chemicals used in the manufacturing processes and to replace them with safer alternatives.

• We will continue to embed chemical and environmental management criteria for our garment, home textile, and shoe suppliers. The chemical management performance of our business partners will also form a part of our Corporate Responsibility Supplier Evaluation programme (CRSE).
• In parallel, we will continue to increase our focus on capacity development of strategic production facilities through targeted measures such as training.

• We will investigate opportunities for the introduction of closed-loop products into our product range. This will be achieved by collaborating with external partners to steer product innovation. 

• As one of the first international food retailers with a company-wide approved “Science Based Target” (SBT) for climate protection, we aim to reduce our overall operational emissions by 26% by 2025 (compared to a baseline year 2016).
• We will monitor our progress by annually calculating our Company Carbon Footprint for all of our business processes and locations in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

• We are proud to partner with suppliers who share our values. That is why we will encourage our strategic suppliers, which are responsible for 75% of product-related emissions, to work towards setting science-based greenhouse gas emissions targets by 2024.

• We will work with partners along our supply chain to promote innovation at product level and implement projects to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our supply chains.